this article drives me nuts. as the parent of a 9 year old (going on 21 it seems), the article goads my thoughts into directions that would drive any dad to drink.
from the article:
At a recent family party, Catherine recalls how a 14-year-old boy pursued her nine-year-old daughter.
“He wouldn’t leave her alone all night, which made me feel very uncomfortable,” says Catherine, who runs a furniture business with husband David, 42, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
“But thankfully she told him she was nine and not interested in him.
*shudder*
of course the little darling from the article is not my 9 year old. my lovely wife and i would not allow her to go as far as the girls in the article seem to.
it’s all about control and apportionment. the world “no” should be in every parent’s vocabulary.
“I felt a little guilty because of the part I play in Bethany looking older than she is, but all her friends are the same, and when she works hard at school I’m loath to deny her the beauty treats she loves.”
idiocy. really the mother only has herself to blame. it is the job of the parent to set limits in dress, thought, mode of speech, etc.
i am half convinced that the “little voice” that most of us seem to possess is really just the lessons of childhood and adolescence coming back to advise us in adulthood. if parents don’t do their jobs then there is no “little voice” for the future generation. all we would get is a future of narcissistic sociopaths, and haven’t the hippies, with their culture of “self-esteem” and new age bullshit, nearly accomplished that already?
